Mutual Information as a Measure of Contextual Effects on Single Switch Use
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Users with disability interact with augmentative and alternative communication devices, environmental control units, and computers via an access technology. While caregivers routinely exploit contextual information to interact meaningfully with individuals who are nonverbal and have severe motor impairments, access technologies to date have largely ignored context. Contextual factors include the environmental and personal factors in the model of functioning and disability introduced by The World Health Organization's International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health
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